Steve Petersen and August Berkshire interview David Silverman, President of American Atheists, about the Reason Rally 2012, to be held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., Saturday, March 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

The Reason Rally is endorsed and will have speakers from most of the nation’s leading national freethought organizations, including the American Humanist Association, Atheist Alliance of America, Camp Quest, Center for Inquiry, Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers, Secular Coalition for America, Secular Student Alliance, Society for Humanistic Judaism, Stiefel Freethought Foundation, The Brights, James Randi Educational Foundation, Richard Dawkins Foundation, and the United Coalition of Reason. Featured speakers include Richard Dawkins, Greta Christina, PZ Myers, Taslima Nasrin, James Randi, Hemant Mehta, Sean Faircloth, and Jamila Bey.

The following two days, March 25-26, 2012, American Atheists will hold their annual convention in Bethesda, MD. We will discuss each of these events and more. Our host for this program will be Brianne Bilyeu.

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